Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. The last two of these were either not developed enough or were allowed to lapse. The exercises revealed, for example, that special attention needed to be given to protecting the residents of care homes (PHE 2017, pp. The plans were not connected to anything.

2008 52

2008 2016 2017 2020 52

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

The same shortcomings were present in the 2005 London bombings, as were others (for example, the way in which 'major incident' as declared). In 2017, the responses to the Manchester Arena bombings and the Grenfell Tower fire were substantially criticised. A gulf has therefore developed between plans and the ability to activate them.

Coordinator 52

Coordinator Laws Disaster Response 2005 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2005, I served on the advisory committee for the International Public Markets Conference which covered both DC and Baltimore that year, led a tour, etc. In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. They still haven't.

Nonprofit 52

Nonprofit Development Management Events 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 19, 2023

WMATA has even more issues because if either Maryland or Virginia have Republican Governors, it makes it very difficult to develop consensus support for such a tax, because they see it, justifiably or not, as helping DC disproportionately. So given there's been talk about this for at leas 20 years I'm not holding my breath.

2006 52

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